Institute for Simulation and Training News

UCF psychology Professor Peter Hancock has been named the Aerospace Human Factors Association’s William Collins Award recipient for 2020. This is the second time Hancock…

Henry “Hank” Okraski helped create some of the school’s early simulation and training curriculum.

UCF professor gets national grant to study teamwork among scientists and engineers from different disciplines to understand how they learn from each other “on the job.”

The goal is to focus on cyber operations planning, cyber data analytics, modeling and simulation, and emerging technology evaluations among other areas and to rapidly prototype with academia and industry partners.

A national search for a permanent leader will kick off this month after COVID-19 delayed the process.

Charlie Hughes has dedicated his career to advancing the world of modeling and simulation and has played a major role in the success of dozens of students.

Charles Hughes, the director of UCF’s Synthetic Reality Lab, also served on the committee that formed the Institute of Simulation and Training in 1982.

UCF moves up to 29th among public U.S. universities and 65th best in the world of all public and private universities.

The team is using high capacity 3D printers to produce face shields and is developing respirator masks in multiple sizes.